11.   Digital will retain its Alpha and Alpha-related design teams and continue to develop future generations of Alpha chips.

12.   Digital makes the Alpha chip, a processor used in high-end workstations and server computers.

13.   Digital, for its part, gets to unload its money-losing semiconductor operations while retaining a guaranteed source of Alpha chips.

14.   In fact, Compaq said last week that it will begin using Alpha chips to power its high-end Himalaya computer systems used by banks and telecommunications companies.

15.   In addition, Digital had held preliminary talks with IBM about using some of its excess factory capacity to build the Alpha chip.

16.   Intel also would sell Alpha chips to Digital at a discount.

17.   It also gives Digital a forum for its Alpha chips, some of which operate at speeds twice as fast as the fastest Pentium.

18.   Is Digital Equipment about to give up on its troubled Alpha chip to settle its patent infringement suit against Intel?

19.   It is patents on the Alpha chip that Digital claims Intel infringes with aspects of is Pentium Pro design.

20.   It is patents on the Alpha chip that Digital claims Intel infringes with aspects of its Pentium Pro design.